Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo

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Sonoma

...of San Francisco and 20 miles (30 km) southeast of Santa Rosa, in the Sonoma Valley (made famous by Jack London as the “Valley of the Moon”). It was founded in 1835 by military officer
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (who had been sent to investigate the Russian outpost at Fort Ross, 50 miles north-northwest) at the site of the Mission San Francisco Solano, the last (1823) and most...

Vallejo

city, Solano county, western California, U.S. It lies along San Pablo Bay at the mouth of the Napa River, just north of Berkeley and Oakland. In 1850 military officer Mariano Guadeloupe Vallejo offered land for the new state capital of California. Although his offer was accepted and the new town of Vallejo was laid out, the legislature met there for only seven days in January 1852 and for a...